Sri Lanka is slowly moving into an uncertain future. The reason for this would be that the lawmakers of this country are adamant at promoting their personal views ahead of reality. The present environmental issues that have cropped up underscore that

The adoption of the resolution L.1/Rev.1 by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday has paved the way for enhanced UN monitoring on Sri Lanka. The UNHRC has adopted resolutions critical of Sri Lanka since 2012, but the latest one

Since the invention of the Small Pox vaccine by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796, vaccines have saved millions of lives that would have otherwise perished because of infections.

‘The proposal to ban face coverings such as the burqa and niqab, worn by Muslim woman is for national security purposes and not because of any resistance towards Islam religion”

The Daily Mirror in a front page news item today states that according to UN sources, the resolution on Sri Lanka adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday will take immediate effect with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human

The vote on the resolution against Sri Lanka was adopted on Tuesdays at the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. That slant was reflected in the vote as well. The resolution was passed 22-11 with 14 abstentions.

Sri Lanka’s tuskers are a rarity with only 7% of male elephants on the island carrying tusks. Every individual animal is precious.

I showed this recent online advert to two colleagues. One had no clue about Sri Lanka and did not speak or read Sinhala.

Since the Covid-19 hit our country in March last year, our countrymen and women, irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity, poor or rich have seen our life situation drop.

Those with a skewed walk habitually check if we are walking straight,” read the slogan detached from the Lunugala-Colombo bus....

A day prior to the final match of the Road Safety World Series T20 tournament was played at Raipur in India on Sunday, 14 people were killed and 47 injured in a major road accident at Passara on Monaragala-Badulla main road. The trage

As Sri Lanka is heading towards a showdown in the UN Human Rights Council, which will vote on an adverse resolution on Sri Lanka today, leaders in Colombo are scrambling to avoid a near-certain defeat. On Sunday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called

With political interests clouding rights issues, the UNHRC’s record is a mix of the good and the bad

One is reminded of ‘Archie’s Comedy Hour’ and its timeless animated song, “Sugar, Sugar-Honey, Honey…” shown on CBS-TV five decades ago and the famous fables of “Andare”, the celebrated court jester and our childhood hero. In the

Moves to sign free trade deal

On October 26, 1966, the UN proclaimed March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination....

Like a great sporting event that comes every other year, Geneva is the venue and the time for Sri Lanka’s post-conflict national sport: hopscotch.

A section of Sri Lanka’s nature-loving fraternity gathered at the Vihara Mahadevi Park last Friday to express their concerns concerning the ongoing....

The final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the Easter Sunday attacks was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by the Chairman of the Commission, Supreme Court Judge Janak de Silva at the Presidential Secretariat on

When my son was five years old, a fellow camper said to him that he “wasn’t any colour on the rainbow.” According to his little friend, this meant that he was an alien.

In Sri Lanka, the slave trade is not seen as a major problem though some families are known to use poor children for domestic work while unscrupulous traders and bussnessmen also employ poor children under the age of 18.

19-year-old Bhagya Abeyratne made headlines last week over a statement made during the ‘Sirasa Lakshapathi Programme’ which is aired during weekends on Sirasa Television.

Sri Lanka, as a nation has been wasting time debating sensitive racial and religious issues for the past several years....

A few years ago, on a Turkish beach exclusively for women, a bikini-clad woman offered her prayers. The video clip of the woman going.....

The law of the country should be equal to everyone. That’s what the law books say. Then we also have religion which is used as a tool....

The launch in Colombo of a Trilateral Maritime Security Secretariat, for cooperation between Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives, merits closer scrutiny. This is on account of revelations contained in a newly declassified document from Washington that

Former Chief of State Intelligence Nilantha Jayawardena says that as of April 11, about 15,000 people were aware of information received from a foreign intelligence service about the Easter Sunday attacks.

The leaders of the political parties which are aligned with the government resolved on Tuesday evening to have elections to the provincial councils at the earliest.